It's no secret that Android Studio is a large IDE that drains resources when you need to get it up and running. As a react-native developer, I only needed to open Android Studio in order to create an emulator to run the app I was developing. The entire application of Android Studio was really too much. All I used was the emulator (and react native probably used some other tools from the SDK under it's hood). Each day as I opened Android Studio though, I would cringe as the sound of an Airbus taking off emanated from my laptop, and the temperature of my office would rise a degree or two. Enough was enough, and I decided to research solutions to my problem. I found some helpful info about running the emulator by itself. It was really simple to do, and nothing special was required. Assuming you have Android Studio installed: cd ~/Library/Android/Sdk/tools/bin && ./avdmanager list avd This command will output the list of virtual devices that you you have installed. Here is what mine looks like: Name: Pixel_API_25 Device: pixel (Google) Path: /Users/mvaldez/.android/avd/Pixel_API_25.avd Target: Google APIs (Google Inc.) Based on: Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) Tag/ABI: google_apis/x86 Skin: pixel Sdcard: /Users/mvaldez/.android/avd/Pixel_API_25.avd/sdcard.img In my case my only option is "Pixel_API_25". We will use that Name in the next command, which will open the emulator. cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools && ./emulator -avd Pixel_API_25 Just replace Pixel_API_25 with the name of the emulator that you want to run, and press enter. Boom! There you have it. The emulator will load and run, without the tremendous overhead required when opening the entire Android Studio App. This tip is a huge time saver.
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